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Gerd Degens wrote on Sat, Nov 2 03:39 AM EDT in reply to Bn Em from Fri Nov 1 03:48 PM:

Thanks for the explanation. The idea does not seem to be practicable.

Bn Em wrote on Fri, Nov 1 03:48 PM EDT in reply to Gerd Degens from 12:31 PM:

The linked page has games in order according to number of games finished on GC, which is the closest we have to the inforation you asked about. But I don't think anyone's suggested using it as a kind of rating for games. One possible reason could be that the number of games played is quite small (CV's are a niche hobby!) except for the very most popular games (Shōgi, Chess, Sac, ⁊c.; only the first 15 games have over 100 games played) so statistical biases are quite likely; and the count doesn't take into account time, meaning that some games could have once been popular but now fallen out of favour, but would still show up with large numbers (I don't know how many, if any, this actually applies to in practice — probably it's unimportant with the small sample size anyway).

Gerd Degens wrote on Fri, Nov 1 12:31 PM EDT in reply to Bn Em from 12:19 PM:

Sorry, I don't understand your text (I'm not a native speaker). Could it be a bit clearer?

Bn Em wrote on Fri, Nov 1 12:19 PM EDT in reply to Gerd Degens from 12:07 PM:

This page has that information (possibly subject to some noise from duplication) for finished games, but I'm not aware of it ever having been promoted as a means of discovery. The sample sizes for all but the most popular games are small enough to admit significant biases, and no account is taken of how recent the games are, which might go some of the way to explaining that

Gerd Degens wrote on Fri, Nov 1 12:07 PM EDT:

A general question: Is there actually a ranking based on how often a variant has been played on Game Courier? That seems to me to be the real yardstick. Or have we had this before? What do you think?

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